Faves of tina mom of two series#

Our heroine, called Maya, is a lowborn who eventually becomes a single parent. Undeniably fascinating is the film’s explanation of the intricate society that emerges – one of clearly delineated social castes. Best is when they interact a bit with some of their neighbours – the sloth bears, peacocks, hornbill toucans or, can I get a hell yeah, mongooses. I’d be content to watch these li’l macaques groom and preen for twice the current running time. The footage captured on location at “Castle Rock,” an outcropping near abandoned Buddhist temples somewhere in Sri Lanka, is absolutely extraordinary. But I am going to say that the wow factor of those first two movies has been at least partially Disneyfied with what do feel, at times, like cheap tricks.īut, hey – what am I, some kind of cruel monster? No! Monkey Kingdom may be Disneynature’s low point thus far, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a great time. I’m not going to be a self-hating American and say these European institutions make better, smarter films. There’s no point in hiding that the first two films, Earth and Oceans, were co-produced by Britain’s BBC and France’s Canal+ respectively.

Faves of tina mom of two series#

Starting with African Cats in 2011, then Chimpanzee, Bears and now Monkey Kingdom, more and more forced narrative has been creeping into a series that at first seemed content to let the splendour of the natural world do the talking.

The sequence is adorable, and extremely well-edited, but represents a bit of a tipping point with Disneynature, the usually infallible producer of this film. This means swingin’ around the marketplace, yanking packets of crisps, sipping off a leaky spigot, climbing a cellphone tower for a night’s rest and trying to make sense of a domesticated dog. In it, a dysfunctional band of macaques, driven from their home after a territorial skirmish with villainous neighbours (you can tell they’re evil, because of their scarred faces), put aside their differences and try to adapt to the big city. Symptoms of brodifacoum poisoning usually take a couple of days to become apparent, and the most common treatment is administration of vitamin K.Īlvarado-Gomez, who also consumed some of the poison, told investigators via interpreter that “she did not want to suffer anymore and she did not want her children to suffer anymore,” and that she “would rather the children be dead than alive in Mexico,” where she said the girls’ father wanted to take them.There’s a 20-minute stretch of the nature documentary Monkey Kingdom that’s more Jacques Tati than Jacques Cousteau. A search of the home yielded an empty container of rodent poison containing brodifacoum, which included a warning: “Keep out of the reach of children. The girls were taken to Valley View Hospital by ambulance and later released into their father’s care. The incident wasn’t reported until the next day, when Alvarado-Gomez was at a regular doctor’s appointment complaining of trouble sleeping. When her daughters complained about the taste, she told them the shakes contained vitamins. Alvarado-Gomez told police she got the idea of using rat poison from a television show. “We thought this one fit the best out of all of them,” she said.Īccording to Caloia, the girls suffered no permanent physical injuries after consuming milkshakes laced with rat poison June 30.